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Predicting High-definition (HD) map elements with high quality (high classification and localization scores) is crucial to the safety of autonomous driving vehicles. However, current methods perform poorly in high quality predictions due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jinpeng Dong , Chen Li , Yutong Lin , Jingwen Fu , Sanping Zhou , Nanning Zheng

Semantic scene understanding is important for various applications. In particular, self-driving cars need a fine-grained understanding of the surfaces and objects in their vicinity. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) provides precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Jens Behley , Martin Garbade , Andres Milioto , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke , Cyrill Stachniss , Juergen Gall

4D LiDAR semantic segmentation, also referred to as multi-scan semantic segmentation, plays a crucial role in enhancing the environmental understanding capabilities of autonomous vehicles or robots. It classifies the semantic category of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Neng Wang , Ruibin Guo , Chenghao Shi , Ziyue Wang , Hui Zhang , Huimin Lu , Zhiqiang Zheng , Xieyuanli Chen

Online mapping models show remarkable results in predicting vectorized maps from multi-view camera images only. However, all existing approaches still rely on ground-truth high-definition maps during training, which are expensive to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Christian Löwens , Thorben Funke , Jingchao Xie , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Reliable and accurate localization and mapping are key components of most autonomous systems. Besides geometric information about the mapped environment, the semantics plays an important role to enable intelligent navigation behaviors. In…

Seamless Human-Robot Interaction is the ultimate goal of developing service robotic systems. For this, the robotic agents have to understand their surroundings to better complete a given task. Semantic scene understanding allows a robotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Muraleekrishna Gopinathan , Giang Truong , Jumana Abu-Khalaf

Semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds has been widely studied in recent years, with most existing methods focusing on tackling this task using a single scan of the environment. However, leveraging the temporal stream of observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Enxu Li , Sergio Casas , Raquel Urtasun

High-definition maps (HD maps) are a key component of most modern self-driving systems due to their valuable semantic and geometric information. Unfortunately, building HD maps has proven hard to scale due to their cost as well as the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Sergio Casas , Abbas Sadat , Raquel Urtasun

Visual localization plays an important role in many applications. However, due to the large appearance variations such as season and illumination changes, as well as weather and day-night variations, it's still a big challenge for robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Tianxin Shi , Hainan Cui , Zhuo Song , Shuhan Shen

As an essential component of autonomous driving systems, high-definition (HD) maps provide rich and precise environmental information for auto-driving scenarios; however, existing methods, which primarily rely on query-based detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jing Yang , Sen Yang , Xiao Tan , Hanli Wang

Existing point cloud modeling datasets primarily express the modeling precision by pose or trajectory precision rather than the point cloud modeling effect itself. Under this demand, we first independently construct a set of LiDAR system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Changjie Qiu , Zhiyong Wang , Xiuhong Lin , Yu Zang , Cheng Wang , Weiquan Liu

This paper presents a fully unsupervised deep change detection approach for mobile robots with 3D LiDAR. In unstructured environments, it is infeasible to define a closed set of semantic classes. Instead, semantic segmentation is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Alexander Krawciw , Jordy Sehn , Timothy D. Barfoot

In this paper, we propose an automatic labeled sequential data generation pipeline for human segmentation and velocity estimation with point clouds. Considering the impact of deep neural networks, state-of-the-art network architectures have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Wonjik Kim , Masayuki Tanaka , Masatoshi Okutomi , Yoko Sasaki

Autonomous driving has traditionally relied heavily on costly and labor-intensive High Definition (HD) maps, hindering scalability. In contrast, Standard Definition (SD) maps are more affordable and have worldwide coverage, offering a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Katie Z Luo , Xinshuo Weng , Yan Wang , Shuang Wu , Jie Li , Kilian Q Weinberger , Yue Wang , Marco Pavone

Autonomous driving requires the inference of actionable information such as detecting and classifying objects, and determining the drivable space. To this end, we present Multi-View LidarNet (MVLidarNet), a two-stage deep neural network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ke Chen , Ryan Oldja , Nikolai Smolyanskiy , Stan Birchfield , Alexander Popov , David Wehr , Ibrahim Eden , Joachim Pehserl

This report introduces the first-place winning solution for the Autonomous Grand Challenge 2024 - Mapless Driving. In this report, we introduce a novel online mapping pipeline LGmap, which adept at long-range temporal model. Firstly, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Kuang Wu , Sulei Nian , Can Shen , Chuan Yang , Zhanbin Li

We present a vehicle self-localization method using point-based deep neural networks. Our approach processes measurements and point features, i.e. landmarks, from a high-definition digital map to infer the vehicle's pose. To learn the best…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Nico Engel , Vasileios Belagiannis , Klaus Dietmayer

Over the past few decades, a significant rise of camera-based applications for traffic monitoring has occurred. Governments and local administrations are increasingly relying on the data collected from these cameras to enhance road safety…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Giacomo D'Amicantonio , Egor Bondarev , Peter H. N. De With

In this work, we demonstrate yet another approach to tackle the amodal segmentation problem. Specifically, we first introduce a new representation, namely a semantics-aware distance map (sem-dist map), to serve as our target for amodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Ziheng Zhang , Anpei Chen , Ling Xie , Jingyi Yu , Shenghua Gao

A map, as crucial information for downstream applications of an autonomous driving system, is usually represented in lanelines or centerlines. However, existing literature on map learning primarily focuses on either detecting geometry-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tianyu Li , Peijin Jia , Bangjun Wang , Li Chen , Kun Jiang , Junchi Yan , Hongyang Li